The Future Of The Future

Music is an Art, an expression of human creative skill and imagination.  Music is everywhere. At the forefront, or in the background. Coming through speakers, or headphones, or an unplugged performance in the street. Making us dance, think, cry, smile, or frown… sleep, jump, relax, get stressed… remember, forget, wish, long, hate, love... Music is an intrinsic element of what it means to be human....

Jared Falk plays drums. He started playing when he was 15 years old, and fell in love with it right away. From the very first moment he sat in front of a drum kit, everything just felt right. And when he started putting more complex beats together, like the time he nailed his first syncopated rock beat? Ahh… MAGIC. He could have followed his family’s steps and worked in the farming or construction...

The era of raising VC funding just by showing a few slides with an idea and nice buzzwords is over. Investors are now looking for very clear evidence of product-market fit and sustainable growth. Showing this type of evidence is easier said than done. So I had a very insightful conversation with my friend Jessica Deckinger , on the topic of product development, raising funds, and achieving sustain...

Michael Bolton has more than 25 years of experience in software testing, he is a founder and leader at developsense, a consulting firm in testing and everything QA related, where he teaches everyone about Rapid Software Testing, a skill set and a mindset focused on high-value testing that is fast, inexpensive, credible, and accountable. Michael visited Uruguay back in 2017, and that’s when Diego C...

He fell in love with computers when he was just a kid. Few people had computers at home back then, but his Dad worked at IBM and gave him exposure to technology early on. He would type and print his homework at home, which effectively made him a nerd. But a very proud one. His growth was not linear. But, is growth ever linear? He was an entrepreneur during the .com crash, he mastered cobol when ev...

Lauren Hannon was a very successful Account Executive in the technology staffing industry. She had it all. A great pay, a proven system to build and nurture relationships, a great recruiting team on her back…  But she wanted something else. She wanted to own her own business. And so she took a leap. Seven months ago, she left her job, and became an entrepreneur, to build her own staffing Company,...

Some people are very good at fixing problems. They are comfortable with chaos. They thrive in it and they are able to find and execute solutions.  Let me tell you, changing the direction of a medium sized company or a multimillion dollar technology program is not an easy task. There are various stakeholders involved, and there will be an adverse reaction to change, whatever that is. But some peopl...

Ben and I share a special bond. We were brothers in arms during a very tough time at a Default Asset Management company in the Real Estate Industry. Ben was leading Asset Management, and his job was to sell properties, fast. I was leading Property Preservation and my job was to get houses ready for sale, fast. There were Leadership changes everywhere, results were lacking, and I had inherited a te...

Who are the best software developers? What makes them the best? What makes them successful?  How can we measure their contribution and their impact? Do we look at the amount of time they spend coding? Or the impact on business? How do we measure “impact on the business”? These are some of the great questions Jacob Crockett had in mind when he co-founded Perspect, a platform designed to reward deve...

I started this podcast one year ago. I have released one episode a week, 52 episodes in total, since March 2023. I talked to many leaders in the technology industry. And I am thankful to every participant, for being a part of the show, for sharing their views and opinions, their stories, their learnings. We talked about various topics: Leadership in Tech, Proptech, Sales, AI, AR/VR, Art and Techno...

Sales is hard. You fail, just because of the nature of the profession, 99% of the time. It takes a special someone to succeed in sales, and to do it for a sustained period of time. You have to enjoy the process. You have to become addicted to the process. And you have to be ambitious enough to continue raising your game and the stakes as you keep evolving. I’ve been doing sales for a while and I’v...

Flow in positive psychology , also known colloquially as being in the zone, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by the complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting transformation in one's sense of time. Finding your...

They say being a product manager is like being a “mini” CEO. Being a Pastor is like being a CEO, only it’s harder.  There are budgets. Websites. Receivables and Payables. There are no Sunday’s off. There is hiring and firing… and the people you fire? chances are they are part of your congregation, and you get to see them, and their families, every Sunday. In this episode, I interviewed my friend B...

At age 10, he was already an entrepreneur.  From self cleaning and sterilizing toilets, to shoes with interchangeable spikes, he was always looking for problems to solve, to invent and create solutions that could become a business. His big brother, who eventually became a software developer and his partner, was always challenging him to build stuff, to solve problems. Fast forward, just a few year...

She went from being the only woman in the room, to the oldest person in the room. She was a California Girl in an Old Guys Club world of mutual funds and investments, and she conquered the North East with record inside sales for her team at Wells Fargo. Then she got married and moved to New York, and became a stay at home mom for 17 years. But suddenly, things changed, and she needed to go back to...

Labor arbitrage, alone, is not enough reason to outsource, not anymore. With the rise of AI and automation possibilities, companies are thinking twice about outsourcing business or support functions offshore. Lift and shift is out of fashion, and out of touch with the current tech scenario. So how do you add value to outsourcing? How do you become an innovation partner to your customers? In the sp...

We, as consumers of services and products, continue absorbing steps that used to be completed by humans working for the companies that sell us services and products. Think about it. The Check In Process for your flight. Getting tags on your bags. Ordering your food through an Ipad. Filling information online for various processes. Human interaction continues to get reduced. But, when that human in...

In the technology world, Product and Sales are very much intertwined.  Feedback needs to flow between the two. Product needs to be enabled to talk to customers in a direct way, to have a different type of conversation that sales would. Sales needs to trust the Product team, and what they are building, and understand it, to be able to communicate this to prospect customers. But things can get ugly...

A lot of people have a desire to do good, but they don’t even know how to start.  So many non profits out there. Where do I start? Who can I trust? How can I keep it simple and still make the most impact out of it? I interviewed my friend Andy Choi, to learn more about the non-profit industry. What’s working and what’s not working well? How can we bridge the gap between nonprofits and individuals...

The best product leaders are a bit like time travelers. They can pick up trends and feedback from users, but they also have a sixth sense that allows them to tune in into what's coming next. My guest for this episode is a hyper energetic, New York based (and raised) Product Leader that is so dialed in that he can never stop channeling thoughts into paper. Post-it notes, emails, Word, Google, Notio...

Besides doing the Future of The Future Podcast, I run a software development company out of South America, called Xseed. One of the reasons I started this podcast was to be able to talk to technology leaders from different places of the world, about cutting edge topics that would add value to my network. As 2023 comes to an end, I wanted to talk to some of the experts and leaders that work with me...

Nuclear Fusion. Combining two light atoms to form a larger atom, releasing energy in the process. Clean, renewable, safe energy. The stuff of Science Fiction… right? Even if some experiments exist, a technology that is at least 15 years away from any sort of commercial adoption… right? Well… Think again. Hunter Bjork is here to tell us about the reality of Nuclear Fusion today, and the future of e...

Layoffs suck. The era of remote work is not making them any better. The way layoffs are being communicated seems to deteriorate by the minute, with grim stories of badly coordinated zoom meetings, improvised messaging by leaders, and immediate and clumsy access removal for remote workers. Is there a better way? Sara Seabourne says yes, definitely yes. And she has been talking about “compassionate...

Leading large teams requires a LOT of energy, and passion. You can’t possibly be effective at leading large operations, if you don’t like the people side of things. My friend Aaron Kuney, leads a team of dozens of professionals and technicians, and a vendor network 4500+ strong, dealing with property services, for one of the biggest property management companies in the US.  You know what gets him...

A Product Manager role in a Technology Company, is a Political Role, like or not. There are lots of negotiations happening all the time. What are we building next? What are we leaving behind? Why? Who gets to decide and how? There are, however, different ways to go about this. The good way involves a lot of transparency. Real transparency and context, so everyone knows what we are doing and why. W...